At exam time I often sent this George Starbuck poem, THE SPELL AGAINST SPELLING (“a poem to be inscribed in dark places and never to be spoken aloud”) , to selected colleagues who were also reading lots of student prose. Odds are you know it, but just in case you don’t:
December 16th, 2014 at 5:36PM
At exam time I often sent this George Starbuck poem, THE SPELL AGAINST SPELLING (“a poem to be inscribed in dark places and never to be spoken aloud”) , to selected colleagues who were also reading lots of student prose. Odds are you know it, but just in case you don’t:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003780.html
December 16th, 2014 at 7:28PM
Greg: Wonderful.